A Report on an Exploration of the Country Lying Between the Missouri River and the Rocky Mountains: On the Line of the Kansas and Great Platte Rivers

The opening of the American West began when President Thomas Jefferson, envisioning a Western empire, sent Lewis and Clark to find a passage to the Pacific Ocean and sent the Pike Expedition to explore the south west. British and American fur trappers, including Peter Skene Ogden and Jedediah Smith, explored much of the American West in the 1820s.
Beginning in 1842, Frémont led four expeditions that continued this tradition of western exploration, building on and adding to the work of earlier pathfinders to expand knowledge of the American West.

Frémont first met frontiersman Kit Carson on a Missouri River steamboat in St. Louis during the summer of 1842. Frémont was preparing to lead his first expedition and was looking for a guide to take him to South Pass, in present-day Wyoming. South Pass, discovered by Jedediah Smith, was by that time the most popular way across the continental divide. Carson offered his services, as he had spent much time in the area. The five-month journey, made with 25 men, was a success. This book is the daily journal kept by Fremont during this first expedition.

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